Well I finally finished Dog in the Night and i found it a touching story about coping in the modern world. While everyone else who is supposed to be "normal" around him wrecks marriages and breaks up their relationships and homes he seems to come through the whole experience in one small sense saner than them. Which says more to me about the modern world than the protagonist in the story.

More recommendations please!

Well I recentlyx got hold of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time and am awaiting a chance to dive in. With parents from UK out here time os short but I can't wait. With a mum who was a nurse of mental patients for 28 years - utter respect for her now I'm older - the world of the brain if yopu get my drift, is a fascinating area.

Blindness by Jose Sarramago is an amazing book. Not like Pi in the feelgood stakes, but certainly makes you think a l ot about (in)humanity.

heh heh... yappybluedog: i was twipping over my words, just like old elmer.

waggedwobin.

Maninadirndl, someone said that to me on Twitter once

What on earth does it mean?

Raggedrobin: perhaps your Google language setting is Elmer Fudd. Give that a twy!

woops! that should say surrealism.

even cowgirls get the blues is by one of my favourite authors, tom robbins, and i was going to suggest him to maninadirndl, if you like a bit of surrwalism, or magic realism.

my favourite book of his is jitterbug perfume, probably. but they are all hilarious and wonderful.

Good get Meg*.

*Maninadirndl - sore head today?

Staines -- you're thinking of Even Cowgirls Get The Blues.